My brother and I had a bunch of the Ring Raiders. They were aircraft bigger than micro machines but smaller than a hot wheels scale. They attached to your hand with a ring. I never understood the concept as a kid and I still don’t today. I may have some kicking around in the attic but I’m sure most of them didn’t survive.
All the GREAT Toy Stores are gone. Now all we have is Crap-Mart. I'm in a small-mid size city. We USED to have a awesome Toys R Us, a Kay Bee Toys, a few Hobby stores and the Target, Wal-Mart, etc. NOW we have 2 Wal-Mart stores, 2 Targets, ZERO Toy Stores, Shopko is DEAD and we have one Hobby store left.
I used to rob the living fucking daylights out of them. In retrospect, I think the workers would just let me. Because no way in hell did staff not see a bunch of doofy preteens standing on the shelf as the sounds of packages ripping and falling to the floor went on for many, many minutes like almost every day. They probably under paid the workers so much, the workers just didnt care. My greatest "borrowing" was a die cast model of the TNG Enterprise. Many years later that was worth hundreds of dollars.
@@moomoomoo33ass not true. We still have a classic toy store in my town, coolest toys on earth. Also big city's like New York still have sotheby's and stuff.
I like how the Breath Blasters package says, "Not for use at school or other public places", but the commercial is set at a school or at the very least a public place.
I could see that. Clearly marketed as a toy you rip up and put back together. Looks like it delivered on the ripping a part not so much on the back together end.
I had the sandman pillow, I loved him so much, I called him "Mr. Pillow", he was so comforting to me as an only child sleeping alone in the back of the house.
In memory of my Grandma I have a story: My mom's family were pretty poor so my grandma made most of their toys growing up. One day she made a pillow some arms and legs then either draw or sewed a face on the pillow (this was in the 50's). All the kids loved these and when they had kid they made their own for their kids. My sister still has one. I remember when I found about the Pillow People a few years ago thinking 'Wait really?' because to me it seem like such a basic idea.
Love your videos.. just discovered your channel today in my nostalgic search to show my bf how sea monkey's were hugely false advertised to me as a child! And I also found this awesome channel.. can't wait to watch SO many of your videos.
In a lot of videos on UA-cam, in particular vintage music tracks, you see dozens and dozens of comments complaining about how everything sucks now and how everything was so much better back in the day. This video perfectly illustrates how nostalgia can make us forget just how bad things could be back then. Biohazardous Breath Blasters, for God's sake!
While I do agree that things were better back in the 80s and the 90s, I never would have said that they were perfect. And anyone who says everything sucks now just haven't looked around enough; there are a few things as good as if not better than nostalgic ones.
I was wondering if anyone else had already commented about this. I think she had the window one. Her pillow person was very special because it was one of the last things her mother gave her before she was violently murdered by a drunk driver.
Manglors!! I loved those as a wee lad. Must be 80's flashback Saturday. Got "Back to the future" playing on my TV. Rocking out some classic Mega Man video games on my computer. Smashed that like as if it owed me money.
Remember the dino heads on a stick, where you squeeze the handle, and the mouth bites? Creepy, but I loved those things, I used to torment my sister with them, lol
"Hey kids, do you want to do more with your pillow than just sleep on it? No? Well, too bad!" Hilarious! 🤣 I ♥️ these kind of videos! Makes me grateful for all the times my parents wouldn't let me have toys like these!
I had the pillow fighter pillow person and i loved it. He was with me for years and never once scared me or gave me nightmares. I can only imagine how much that ET "finger" is going for on Ebay lol.
There was this Harry Potter toy that received mix reviews: the nimbus 2000 toy. It was a broomstick to ride with . . . uhmn . . . a build-in . . . vibration device. Oddly enough, it was not well liked by the boys, but the girls were much more enthusiastic. and there were even reports of battery shortages . . . Worst part: no one in the entire chain of command - from the rookie sweeping floors to the chieftain in head of the top brass - who stopped for a second to ponder upon this matter.
I certainly only wanted to sleep on my pillow as a kid, but 20 years later, and a express parcel from Japan, and i now sleep 'with' my pillow. A pillow which is 5 foot long and with a much different pillowcase as the type i had as a kid (mind nothing lewd). I haven't had 2 failed marriages, but if some of the people that i know knew i owned shit like this (I'm thinking mostly of my female friend and my dad) i'd feel the shame of 2 failed marriages. At least i don't fit the stereotype of the type of guy who owns something like this, that would be true shame. Mind it's a strage feeling when your sleeping (like actually sleeping, after what you brought her back to do is over) with a woman you've brought back to your house, and in your head your thinking 'fuck, i wish i could kick her sweaty ass out and sleep with the body pillow i'm hiding under the bed' I bet most the guys who own body pilows are thinking 'damn i wish i could replace this with a real woman' while i'm here at the totally opposite end of that spectrum. I'm either totally normal and don't like overheating sleeping with somone sweaty AF after 'strenuous physical activity' or i have some kind of problem. Mind i'm a sucker for being extremley comfortable when i sleep, i can't get to sleep if i'm not posistioned or propped up just right, or a bit too hot or cold. So maybe i am normal in that regard, but i bet the idea of kicking a woman out of your bed makes virgins crap themselves. I haven't actually ever done it before, i am polite after all.
After the hair in the Goop Toymax review, I had to research your library. Fun with toys...childhood was weird by itself, now the adult kicks them up... THANKS!
I've never heard of Pillow People but I do know Couch Potatoes. I'm wondering if pillow people got stopped at the boarder or something because I'm up in Canada.
Ya know Laura, if you ever decide your bored of doing videos, you absolutely could make a living doing UA-cam narration/voice over work. Your voice is amazing and extremely easy to listen to.
Hi dear... I really think you create the best contents in UA-cam. . They're amazing! And your voice is so perfect that I can't believe you never have worked at TV commercials!
It's a pity my English is not good enough and I can't understand evything but.. I think you, lucky, speaks now slower than before.. today I was watching one of your 3 years ago videos and I was becoming crazy with the speed, hahaha... thanks for alllll, darling!
@@thomasraahauge5231 - Childs play in comparison. Almost certain she had tonsil stones. The most foul thing the mouth can produce. People who have picked them out can not bear the sulfur- like odor.
Ha ha ha!!! Laura said dingaling! Oh man! We had a weird idea of toys in those days! Fortunately, they weren't all bad, and some parents fought in toy stores during Christmas to get some for their kids (Cabbage Patch Kids)! I don't think I ever got a weird toy per say in those days, mostly Hot Wheels, Transformers and GI Joe, but man, just thinking of all the stuff that existed in those days, no to mention the cartoons with the same toy line. Thanks for sharing, sweet Laura! XXXOOO
I remember all my cousins and I got the ET finger for Xmas in the early 1980’s! Our aunts stuffed toilet paper in it because our fingers were to small!
It very rarely happens to me as I run a Nostalgia channel but...pillow people, wow, I had one and the memory came flooding back, thank you :) gotta find the one I had as a kid now :)
Eminem mentiones them pillow people in he's new album lol I never heard of them before until today listing to it 😆 And then watched this video........ Just thought I'd share that 😁
I have never heard of any of these toys either. I have heard of the Garbage pail kids (not put in this video) and I was not interested in weird ugly things.
I remember when “squirmals”, first came out, the little fuzzy worm attached to a piece of fishing line, that you can make it look like it’s moving across your hands, it was like $20, when it first came out back in the late 70s, now found in 25 cent bubble gum machines.
I always wanted a Manglore as a kid, and when I finally got one and ripped an arm off and tried to put it together again as new I was truly disappointed... Wacky Wheels was a neat interchangeable wheeled car, and my Fischer Price tape recorder was my UA-cam of its day...
Wow I didn't realize any of these even existed. Well, other than Pillow People and I only knew of that because DJ had one in Full House. I figured I was the only one who remembered something random like that 😅
Breath Blasters are still on my bucket list, soooo expensive. One time when I was a kid I found my mom's E.T. finger in her dresser...but it wasn't really an E.T. finger.
I wonder if children who were alien abductees felt some form of relief having a pillow person to sleep with....until they discovered that their new bedtime friend could not protect them from the Greys
I did get the E.T. game and Finger light Christmas 1982 and it was AWESOME. In fact I have so many fond memories of that year I recently swooped up an on card finger for my collection.
It wasn’t a separate company. But in the 80’s there was a short period of time where the Lego’s commercials featured a kid called Zack he was the “LEGO Maniac.” But the original version of the song proclaimed that Zack was “the whack off maniac!” That’s completely true...
About wet myself at the ET fingerdingerling 🤣 I’ve had some mental toys as a child. Used to like the rubber balls that when you squished them, goo would come out of its eyes, then retract. Used to stain the carpet. Also a mechanical straw, when you sucked a drink through it though, the die from the plastic would be sucked in to the mouth too. Ahhhh the 80’s 😂 Brilliant video again, Laura. Lee, UK 🇬🇧 x
I watched this and the weird 80's cartoons and I had to subscribe👍I thought I knew most the toys from the 80's but those weird pillows are the only ones I know from this list. My sister bought like 4 of them and gave me the boxer. Anyone remember Boglins? I loved those creepy things!
The finger light was the only one of these that I've heard of as a child of the 80s. I did have one and never made your connection until now, thanks. BTW I also had the ET game and loved it.
I liked the Garbage Pail Kids cards and I remember the movie vaguely so I searched UA-cam for a scene and found one they started singing and dancing about teamwork or something and I was horrified, it looks like a weird dream/nightmare. My God fellaz!!
SAMSQUATCH Moss I have a collection I have been building since 1985. It may end up being my retirement ticket. With series 1 sealed boxes going for $26,000 a piece now!
I remember being 11 or 12 years old at the time.I was in the local K Mart.This woman was waiting in line to check out.She looked rather..how can I put this....the type that was not interested in dating men.I noticed that the only thing she had in her cart was the E T "finger light". She had a look on her face that seemed to say,"geez..I hope no one I know sees me with this". I don't think she bought it to help her find her way in the dark.
I had Pillow Fighter! My sister had the princess looking on seen next to him in the commercial. His boxing gloves and shorts were a sort of silk material. I loved him. The problem (as memory serves) was, they weren't very easy to wash. So when you fall asleep on your pillow friend multiple times and drool on them -- leaving unsightly discolored blotches -- Mom and Dad can't just toss them in the washer without risking damage or wear to the pillow-toy-thing. My parents never throw anything away, I wonder if pillow fighter still hanging out at home somewhere.
The problem isn't how the E.T. finger looks, the problem is how people's minds work now versus back then.Sure, back then there were occasional dirty jokes, etc.But there was also a great deal of innocence too.That's what's missing today. In short, nowadays it's always dirty jokes, all the time.There is no innocence.
@@waltp3373 Sure they did. No one is suggesting otherwise. But like I said, there was also a great deal of innocence too.That's what's missing today.But now? People's minds automatically jump to what's dirty. It's always about sex now. Always.And that's sad.
I had the Mr. Sandman Pillow Person growing up. I would’ve sworn that his “sand man sleep sand pouch” was magical, and that I would ALWAYS get sleepy whenever I squeezed it in my face.
What was the weirdest toy you ever got as a present??
I saw those 9 videos you were talking about.
They are underrated as heck.
Keep up the great work Laura!
Laura Legends a book ☹️
My brother and I had a bunch of the Ring Raiders. They were aircraft bigger than micro machines but smaller than a hot wheels scale. They attached to your hand with a ring. I never understood the concept as a kid and I still don’t today. I may have some kicking around in the attic but I’m sure most of them didn’t survive.
The Couch Potato by Coleco....soooo friggin weird, im doing a video on it soon, it needs to make one of these lists!
I literally got a fire proof safe one Christmas, still can't figure out why.
That ET finger should have said "not for internal use."
😂
LMAO!!! 😆😹😹😹😹👍👍👍❤️💯
I was thinking the exact same thing. It kind of looks like a vibrator. 🤣
jmbad---Makes one wonder how many women bought and got it home only to find it was not what they thought it was.
You know what they say - anything is a....finger light if you're brave enough
LOL 🤠👍🏻
I REALLY miss KayBee Toys.
I worked at one lol
I loved that store.
All the GREAT Toy Stores are gone. Now all we have is Crap-Mart. I'm in a small-mid size city. We USED to have a awesome Toys R Us, a Kay Bee Toys, a few Hobby stores and the Target, Wal-Mart, etc. NOW we have 2 Wal-Mart stores, 2 Targets, ZERO Toy Stores, Shopko is DEAD and we have one Hobby store left.
I used to rob the living fucking daylights out of them. In retrospect, I think the workers would just let me. Because no way in hell did staff not see a bunch of doofy preteens standing on the shelf as the sounds of packages ripping and falling to the floor went on for many, many minutes like almost every day. They probably under paid the workers so much, the workers just didnt care. My greatest "borrowing" was a die cast model of the TNG Enterprise. Many years later that was worth hundreds of dollars.
@@moomoomoo33ass not true. We still have a classic toy store in my town, coolest toys on earth. Also big city's like New York still have sotheby's and stuff.
I like how the Breath Blasters package says, "Not for use at school or other public places", but the commercial is set at a school or at the very least a public place.
I remember these in 87, they did smell noticeably unpleasant
I got one of the Mangalors for Christmas and I can tell you the disappointment was real. Worthless.
Your display pic is very fitting, haha.
@@Andres33AU I get that a lot. :)
I could see that. Clearly marketed as a toy you rip up and put back together. Looks like it delivered on the ripping a part not so much on the back together end.
@@violetdusk1968 I had one too. It sucked. I tore the arm off and just ended up with a broken toy. :(
I will admit that I actually just chuckled at the line "I'm Pillow Fighter, Featherweight Champion of the World" - Dumb "dad joke", But cute!
I had the sandman pillow, I loved him so much, I called him "Mr. Pillow", he was so comforting to me as an only child sleeping alone in the back of the house.
@Fuck UA-cam isn't though? fuckin' adorable
@Gernot Schrader haha
I want one today.
I still have the big foot steps pillow person it is now my kids and we all love it
8:51 I'm sure many adult women bought the "ET Finger" light as a toy back in the 80s :) lol.
😂😂
E.T. Pussy! It’s yummy!
In memory of my Grandma I have a story: My mom's family were pretty poor so my grandma made most of their toys growing up. One day she made a pillow some arms and legs then either draw or sewed a face on the pillow (this was in the 50's). All the kids loved these and when they had kid they made their own for their kids. My sister still has one. I remember when I found about the Pillow People a few years ago thinking 'Wait really?' because to me it seem like such a basic idea.
Love your videos.. just discovered your channel today in my nostalgic search to show my bf how sea monkey's were hugely false advertised to me as a child! And I also found this awesome channel.. can't wait to watch SO many of your videos.
😊❤️❤️❤️
that ET finger...you just know half of those were "my 1st vibrator"
I wonder if it vibrated or just had a warm wrinkly feeling 😳😱
In a lot of videos on UA-cam, in particular vintage music tracks, you see dozens and dozens of comments complaining about how everything sucks now and how everything was so much better back in the day. This video perfectly illustrates how nostalgia can make us forget just how bad things could be back then. Biohazardous Breath Blasters, for God's sake!
While I do agree that things were better back in the 80s and the 90s, I never would have said that they were perfect. And anyone who says everything sucks now just haven't looked around enough; there are a few things as good as if not better than nostalgic ones.
I still love the 80s it was a really good time in my life.
The character of DJ Tanner had a pillow person in the show.
Thank you. I was trying to figure out who I knew that had that one because it looked so familiar.
The one with the window face wasn't it?
My sister has the blonde one.
These days Pillow People have 'evolved' into long, pillow waifus.
I was wondering if anyone else had already commented about this. I think she had the window one. Her pillow person was very special because it was one of the last things her mother gave her before she was violently murdered by a drunk driver.
Between the mini blowup doll with morning breath and the “finger” light, I got all my bases covered.
Manglors!! I loved those as a wee lad. Must be 80's flashback Saturday. Got "Back to the future" playing on my TV. Rocking out some classic Mega Man video games on my computer. Smashed that like as if it owed me money.
Remember the dino heads on a stick, where you squeeze the handle, and the mouth bites? Creepy, but I loved those things, I used to torment my sister with them, lol
Yeah I one of them too
I remember those XD
You'd get them at the Science center and places like that.
I've seen those with practically every kind of animal in zoo or museum gift shops
I had one. It was a shark.
"Hey kids, do you want to do more with your pillow than just sleep on it? No? Well, too bad!" Hilarious! 🤣 I ♥️ these kind of videos! Makes me grateful for all the times my parents wouldn't let me have toys like these!
People reminds me of Full House. One of little girls always had the one that looks like the window in their bed.
It was DJ who had it!
What? Type English dude
THATS where I seen that damn pillow. Was trying my hardest to remember where I’d seen that.
Love the E.T commentary i think i just fell in love with you hahaha. Comedy gold
I LOOOOVED MY PILLOW PEOPLE....I WISH I COULD BUY THEM NOW
What a buncha weird toys!!
Loved the video and looking forward to more weird 90s toys and beyond!!
Imagine the embarrassment of being known as that witch who got defeated by a pillow.
I’ve never really gotten over it, mostly because my business cards still say Witch Who Was Defeated By A Pillow 🥺
That Pillow People idea from a soft-furnishings company was genius!
Laura Legends has a great voice I could listen to her narrations forever.
I had the pillow fighter pillow person and i loved it. He was with me for years and never once scared me or gave me nightmares. I can only imagine how much that ET "finger" is going for on Ebay lol.
this channel projects a lot. voice actress sounds like a hr rep.
so thats why so many 14 year old girls had this ET toy when i was growing up
There was this Harry Potter toy that received mix reviews: the nimbus 2000 toy. It was a broomstick to ride with . . . uhmn . . . a build-in . . . vibration device. Oddly enough, it was not well liked by the boys, but the girls were much more enthusiastic. and there were even reports of battery shortages . . .
Worst part: no one in the entire chain of command - from the rookie sweeping floors to the chieftain in head of the top brass - who stopped for a second to ponder upon this matter.
Things like perfection and jack-in-box always scared the shit out of me...LOL
Also I never realized your voice sounds kinda like Watch Mojo when doing voice over 🎙️😁
Oddly, I don’t remember any of these. Thank you for making this series!
"Hey kids, do you want to do more with your pillow than sleep on it?!"
"Yeah in about 20 years and 2 failed marriages later".
🏆
I certainly only wanted to sleep on my pillow as a kid, but 20 years later, and a express parcel from Japan, and i now sleep 'with' my pillow. A pillow which is 5 foot long and with a much different pillowcase as the type i had as a kid (mind nothing lewd). I haven't had 2 failed marriages, but if some of the people that i know knew i owned shit like this (I'm thinking mostly of my female friend and my dad) i'd feel the shame of 2 failed marriages.
At least i don't fit the stereotype of the type of guy who owns something like this, that would be true shame. Mind it's a strage feeling when your sleeping (like actually sleeping, after what you brought her back to do is over) with a woman you've brought back to your house, and in your head your thinking 'fuck, i wish i could kick her sweaty ass out and sleep with the body pillow i'm hiding under the bed' I bet most the guys who own body pilows are thinking 'damn i wish i could replace this with a real woman' while i'm here at the totally opposite end of that spectrum. I'm either totally normal and don't like overheating sleeping with somone sweaty AF after 'strenuous physical activity' or i have some kind of problem. Mind i'm a sucker for being extremley comfortable when i sleep, i can't get to sleep if i'm not posistioned or propped up just right, or a bit too hot or cold. So maybe i am normal in that regard, but i bet the idea of kicking a woman out of your bed makes virgins crap themselves. I haven't actually ever done it before, i am polite after all.
After the hair in the Goop Toymax review, I had to research your library.
Fun with toys...childhood was weird by itself, now the adult kicks them up...
THANKS!
I wonder if you've heard of Couch Potatoes. They're plushie potatoes made to be TV watching companions and were packaged in cardboard sofas.
They made a cheap remake for Poundland a few years back
I've never heard of Pillow People but I do know Couch Potatoes. I'm wondering if pillow people got stopped at the boarder or something because I'm up in Canada.
I had one! He was too cute. I had him until 2011 when he was lost when I moved :(
I remember the commercials for those.
William Crowe ua-cam.com/video/Sn0WiCjBwm4/v-deo.html
Ya know Laura, if you ever decide your bored of doing videos, you absolutely could make a living doing UA-cam narration/voice over work. Your voice is amazing and extremely easy to listen to.
my nephew found his moms finger lite and was playing torpedo with it in the bathroom sink, good thing it was water proof. LoL
Heat seeking moisture missile???
@@chrisw5742 At least it's only firering blanks . . .
Hi dear... I really think you create the best contents in UA-cam. . They're amazing! And your voice is so perfect that I can't believe you never have worked at TV commercials!
It's a pity my English is not good enough and I can't understand evything but.. I think you, lucky, speaks now slower than before.. today I was watching one of your 3 years ago videos and I was becoming crazy with the speed, hahaha... thanks for alllll, darling!
I still have like 15 of those Teddy Ruxpin books!
I Can’t Wait to See Your List For Weirdest 90s Toys,I’m Sure There’s a Ton
I once worked with a woman who was a living breath blaster.
I had a coworker who's posterior was a breath blaster . . .
@@thomasraahauge5231 - Childs play in comparison. Almost certain she had tonsil stones. The most foul thing the mouth can produce. People who have picked them out can not bear the sulfur- like odor.
My roommate nick name was Dragon breath.
LMA*AO😆
*Alien 👽
Ha ha ha!!! Laura said dingaling! Oh man! We had a weird idea of toys in those days! Fortunately, they weren't all bad, and some parents fought in toy stores during Christmas to get some for their kids (Cabbage Patch Kids)! I don't think I ever got a weird toy per say in those days, mostly Hot Wheels, Transformers and GI Joe, but man, just thinking of all the stuff that existed in those days, no to mention the cartoons with the same toy line. Thanks for sharing, sweet Laura! XXXOOO
I remember all my cousins and I got the ET finger for Xmas in the early 1980’s! Our aunts stuffed toilet paper in it because our fingers were to small!
creepy
Just discovered your channel today. Love it!
The pillow people remind me of Sid and Marty Kroft Saturday morning shows
Joe Molesky HR pufiinstuff
Cool video... 🎮🎲🤼♂️🤼♂️
Remember the song MY DING-A-LING when you showed the E.T. finger.
"Pfft pfft! I'm Pillow Fighter, featherweight champion of the world!" Haha, I chuckled at that one. 😋😁
I had Victor Vomit and it really did stink like puke! That was a blast from the past lol. Great vid thank you 😊
I also had the original Mr Pop ! That was a cool game. Wow I feel old now lol 👴😊
LOL. "Mr. Pop", wish I would've saved all my toys from my childhood. Cool video, Laura.
There's no way the ET fingerlight creator did that by accident.
Look up the “Fuzuoku Asian Massage Device.” The ad literally as some Asian chick getting herself off with a finger vibrator.
Wow Pillow Biter's and there little known cousins the Carpet Munchers!!! You found some weird ass toys Laura. Love what you do. X
for all of those fantasies I had about about E.T. giving me a prostate exam....
Um,.....WOW DUDE WTF? If his head grew that high AND the tip would GLOW. Putting that in Uranus is sketchy at best.
Again...WOW.
Ouch! Eliot
david10006 Glad I’m not the only one!
Nice list Laura! I remember the pillow people. lol Those were definitely some weird toys. lol
I had the E.T. finger light, me and my friends thought it was quite fun, we would do E.T. impressions. "Ouch!"
It very rarely happens to me as I run a Nostalgia channel but...pillow people, wow, I had one and the memory came flooding back, thank you :) gotta find the one I had as a kid now :)
Hahaha I had the E.T. light up finger when I was a kid!!🤣👆🏼I even took it to school once!!🤣🤣
I had E.T.'s Ding-a-Ling!!!!!!!!!! LMAO
Wasn't there also some scandal with the Sorbithane material that the Manglors were made of. Prolonged exposure caused rashes or alergic reactions?
Eminem mentiones them pillow people in he's new album lol
I never heard of them before until today listing to it 😆
And then watched this video........ Just thought I'd share that 😁
I have never heard of any of these toys either. I have heard of the Garbage pail kids (not put in this video) and I was not interested in weird ugly things.
My neighbor and his sister each had one when I was a kid.
I had the bigfoot one.
Eminem should have stuffed it in his mouth and made the album better.
I love this idea! :D I cant wait to see more of the series!!
I remember when “squirmals”, first came out, the little fuzzy worm attached to a piece of fishing line, that you can make it look like it’s moving across your hands, it was like $20, when it first came out back in the late 70s, now found in 25 cent bubble gum machines.
@Leonard Chornomaz The Fuzzy Worm was just overpriced and a rip off .
Instant dance party, instant chicks😂😂 these blinding goggles are killing me 🤣
I always wanted a Manglore as a kid, and when I finally got one and ripped an arm off and tried to put it together again as new I was truly disappointed... Wacky Wheels was a neat interchangeable wheeled car, and my Fischer Price tape recorder was my UA-cam of its day...
*LOL So many women bought the finger light and loved E.T.* ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Wow I didn't realize any of these even existed. Well, other than Pillow People and I only knew of that because DJ had one in Full House. I figured I was the only one who remembered something random like that 😅
Breath Blasters are still on my bucket list, soooo expensive. One time when I was a kid I found my mom's E.T. finger in her dresser...but it wasn't really an E.T. finger.
I wonder if children who were alien abductees felt some form of relief having a pillow person to sleep with....until they discovered that their new bedtime friend could not protect them from the Greys
ET finger?
I did get the E.T. game and Finger light Christmas 1982 and it was AWESOME. In fact I have so many fond memories of that year I recently swooped up an on card finger for my collection.
How many "et finger lights" ended up in places they didn't belong in?
Are you 100% SURE they DIDN'T belong there?!? 😂
Yo I still have one of those things I got him for Christmas 😂😂 I never even opened it still in the package
@@Don-pm7mw have you checked ebay? it might be worth something
Kaesewicht ya but I’m a collector so I wouldn’t sell it plus had it forever
ET fingering . . . Jeepers . . .
Absolutely awesome video Laura. An interesting concept id love you to keep up. ;-)
When I was little my neighbor Stephanie Tanner had a pillow person. She loved it. I was a manglor guy myself 🤫
Are you Steeve Urkel?
I think it was DJ that had the pillow person.....Mr. Bear was Stephanie's.
@@themarriedcouple9924 yes, your totally right.
It wasn’t a separate company. But in the 80’s there was a short period of time where the Lego’s commercials featured a kid called Zack he was the “LEGO Maniac.” But the original version of the song proclaimed that Zack was “the whack off maniac!” That’s completely true...
I bet Zack owned the E.T. finger.
One of the breath blasters at 4:55 reminds me of Margaret Thatcher.
I actually thought it was a spitting image toy when I saw the thumbnail !
That's an insult to the breath blaster, lol
Always did me as well
@@LaGuerre19 Yeah, leave that poor innocent breath blaster alone! 🤪🤪🤪
About wet myself at the ET fingerdingerling 🤣 I’ve had some mental toys as a child. Used to like the rubber balls that when you squished them, goo would come out of its eyes, then retract. Used to stain the carpet. Also a mechanical straw, when you sucked a drink through it though, the die from the plastic would be sucked in to the mouth too. Ahhhh the 80’s 😂 Brilliant video again, Laura. Lee, UK 🇬🇧 x
A Pillow Person was also featured in a few ep's of FULL HOUSE in DJ and Stephanie's bedroom.
Great video. Keep 80s vids coming
Oh my god I remember going to someone’s house that had the people pillow thing that scared me as a kid 😂
My daughter and I love these videos she asks every time "did you have one of those". Good stuff thanks
so the ET clip they shown was from special edition dvd. the guys are carrying walkie talkie instead of guns.
I had the Punky Pillow, from 1985. Prior to watching this, I'd forgotten that thing existed!
Shoulda been ET's whole hand.
That does look like a ding a ling.
I watched this and the weird 80's cartoons and I had to subscribe👍I thought I knew most the toys from the 80's but those weird pillows are the only ones I know from this list. My sister bought like 4 of them and gave me the boxer. Anyone remember Boglins? I loved those creepy things!
We all know that somewhere in America an ET finger entered someone’s poop Shute or urination station.
That whole hand though... Imagine that going into the Hershey highway. 😄
I pretty sure the ET finger did lighting not sounding.
The finger light was the only one of these that I've heard of as a child of the 80s. I did have one and never made your connection until now, thanks. BTW I also had the ET game and loved it.
The gross out toys craze came from Garbage Pail Kids...
I liked the Garbage Pail Kids cards and I remember the movie vaguely so I searched UA-cam for a scene and found one they started singing and dancing about teamwork or something and I was horrified, it looks like a weird dream/nightmare. My God fellaz!!
I feel like the gross out toys ended in the late 90s, unless I haven't kept track since then?
SAMSQUATCH Moss I have a collection I have been building since 1985. It may end up being my retirement ticket. With series 1 sealed boxes going for $26,000 a piece now!
Andres Ulloa yeah, they pretty well did. Except for cult following.
Common Sense Isn't Common definitely!
I LOVE some of the toys you showed in this video oh & I Love this video too !!! 👍
I remember being 11 or 12 years old at the time.I was in the local K Mart.This woman was waiting in line to check out.She looked rather..how can I put this....the type that was not interested in dating men.I noticed that the only thing she had in her cart was the E T "finger light".
She had a look on her face that seemed to say,"geez..I hope no one I know sees me with this".
I don't think she bought it to help her find her way in the dark.
You should change your name to Adam's madeups cuz I'm betting this didnt happen.
@@Fanuc_Operator1990 Total b.s.
I had Pillow Fighter! My sister had the princess looking on seen next to him in the commercial.
His boxing gloves and shorts were a sort of silk material. I loved him. The problem (as memory serves) was, they weren't very easy to wash. So when you fall asleep on your pillow friend multiple times and drool on them -- leaving unsightly discolored blotches -- Mom and Dad can't just toss them in the washer without risking damage or wear to the pillow-toy-thing.
My parents never throw anything away, I wonder if pillow fighter still hanging out at home somewhere.
Weirdest toy I had was rock lords they're transforming robots shaped like rocks
I had a couple of them.
They were like a cheap RIP-off Transformers
@@richieb7692 They were from the Gobot's line of toys. Case closed. Lol
I really missed the toy aisles back then because I don't remember any of those. Number one was unmistakable for what it looked like. 🤣🤣🤣
The problem isn't how the E.T. finger looks, the problem is how people's minds work now versus back then.Sure, back then there were occasional dirty jokes, etc.But there was also a great deal of innocence too.That's what's missing today.
In short, nowadays it's always dirty jokes, all the time.There is no innocence.
They had dildos in the 80s. People haven't changed that much. Maybe you had a sheltered childhood.
@@waltp3373 Sure they did. No one is suggesting otherwise. But like I said, there was also a great deal of innocence too.That's what's missing today.But now? People's minds automatically jump to what's dirty. It's always about sex now. Always.And that's sad.
Brent Canfield you are a freaking square
@@karoz69 Shh...if we wanted to hear from an asshole, we would have just farted ;-)
I remember Breath Blasters. Definitely recall blasting my sister and annoying her constantly with Ms Morningmouth. Crop dusting good times!
Whenever a girl saw my "E.T's" Finger", she would always want to Phone (and then go) Home!!!!
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Did they think you were using it on your own ass or something?
I loved Manglors!!!!! Had several. The reattachments didn’t work well...
"Was the creator of the toy line on acid at the time?"
"It looked like a wrinkly D*CK!!"
You are comic genius!!!!
I love your work Laura you rock Girl x
Lol. Millennials think they had weird toys.
I had the Mr. Sandman Pillow Person growing up. I would’ve sworn that his “sand man sleep sand pouch” was magical, and that I would ALWAYS get sleepy whenever I squeezed it in my face.
Um what’s wrong with “pagan” ceremonies in the forest? Would you object to Christian ceremonies in the forest?
It was a joke. It's like you can't make a joke without the hyper offended police trying to politically correct you.
I love the variety of content you make. Just watched you try to make a rice Krispy death stat today trying to catch up on your earlier stuff.
Hahaha the ET light and your comments had me laughing 💚
Wrestling superstars were awesome. Great video. Love the channel